How can I hide a password in shell scripts? There are a number of scripts that are accessing database. If we open the script others also aware the username and password. So if anyone knows how to hide please let me know.
I need to execute rsync, without it prompting me for password.
I have a remote host,
previously I can ssh into it with root and password
On my personal machine, I often type sudo in front of certain commands in order to accomplish administrative tasks. I had hoped to avoid doing this throughout the day, by typing su root and providing the same password I usually do for sudo. However, the two passwords are not the same(I don’t know how to log in to su root). Is running a command with sudo different than logging in with su root and running the same command?
When you setup a new Ubuntu or OS X installation a user is generally created for you. On OS X it is whatever username you pick. On Ubuntu (the server version) usually the ubuntu user is created.
Passing secrets (password) to a program via environmental variable is considered “extremely insecure” according to MySQL docs and as poor choice (from security aspect) across other resources.
Is there a way to store my password in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf as some hash instead of plaintext?
I’m running a ksh script on AIX 7.2.
How do I configure my system to destroy all personal data when a certain password is entered? The motivation behind this being NSA stuff.
I would like to password protect or encrypt a directory and all the files within it (for the whole directory tree below it). I do not want to bother the whole home directory, I want a specific directory with some files and folders in it. I would like to be able to encrypt the directory or decrypt it using a password. Command line would be nicest to use. I don’t want to have to create a new file as an encrypted version and then, delete the previous ones which are the non-encrypted version.